Posted on 04/04/2009 8:21:47 PM PDT by ReformationFan
Dear Steve:
Thanks for writing me with your concerns about your daughter’s recent visit home from college. I don’t have a daughter but I can understand the concern you have after seeing such dramatic changes in her after just six months at a public university. After all, you didn’t save money for eighteen long years in order to pay someone to teach her to despise the values you taught for, well, eighteen long years.
First of all, I want you to understand that many of the crazy ideas you hear your daughter espousing are commonplace on college campuses. Nonetheless, it must have been shocking for you to hear that she supported Barack Obama in the last election principally because of his ideas about “the redistribution of wealth.” I know you were also disappointed to hear of her sudden opposition to the War on Terror and her sudden embrace of the United Nations. Most of all, I know you are disappointed that she has stopped going to church altogether.
Now that your daughter is not going to church it will be easier to get her to accept other policies based on economic and cultural Marxism. Socialist professors like the fact that average church attendance drops dramatically after just one year of college. God and socialism are simply incompatible. One cannot worship both Jesus Christ and Karl Marx.
But there is good news, Steve. I think I can implement a program that will cure your daughter’s Socialist Teaching Disorder (STD) in just a few short days. In case you were wondering, I define STD as the sudden infatuation with socialism brought on by exposure to pro-socialist ideas without a corresponding exposure to anti-socialist ideas. Although not recognized by the APA, this emotional disorder is running rampant at American universities.
The solution to your daughter’s STD is to be found in your decision to award her a sum of $4000 if she returns from her freshman year with a 3.5 GPA or above. Previously, you explained to me that you decided to do this for two reasons: 1) Your daughter had earned a $4000 scholarship, which meant you had the extra money, and 2) Your only son had gone to college five years ago and flunked out after one year.
Now that your daughter has maintained a 3.6 GPA (so far) you are happy. But you are unhappy that you are about to reward her newfound love of socialism when you had only intended to reward her studiousness. I have a solution that involves three steps. If you follow these steps (in order) we’ll have this little problem cured in no time:
1. When your daughter returns from college in early May (presumably with a GPA over 3.5) I want you to tell her that you lied. Put simply, when she asks about her $4000 just tell her that you never really had any intention of delivering on your promises.
This revelation will, no doubt, cause significant consternation and outrage. But when she protests, simply point out that her choice for president, Barack Obama, also lied to her. Note that his lies about earmarks and line-by-line analysis of the budget will probably end up costing her more than $4000. She might say, “But you’re my father.” If she does, respond by saying “But I’m not your president.” If things get too uncomfortable, just tell her the $4000 promise was technically “last year’s business.”
2. When your daughter has cooled down somewhat from the realization that her father is a confessed liar I want you to strike again. Since your son, now 23, still lives at home it will be possible for you to implement step two in the presence of both children. This step will involve simply taking out your wallet and writing a $2000 check to your son.
This action will, no doubt, cause even more consternation and outrage for your daughter. She may well point out that her brother is unemployed. She may also point out that he has been in rehab twice and that he once punched you in the face while under the influence of drugs. But, when she protests, simply say that it was Barack Obama who taught you to reward failure.
She may well say “But that’s half of the money I was supposed to get.” If so, point out that it is Barack Obama who would like to take other people’s money – at least half, if not more – and use much of it to reward bad behavior. By this time, she will probably hate socialism and the lesson will have saved you a lot of money.
But, just in case the point is not yet made, there is a third step to my plan. And this is where I get actively involved.
3. I’m going to take your daughter and the remaining $2000 - in the form of one hundred $20 bills – to the “hood.” Specifically, I am going to take her to places where crack cocaine is sold here in Wilmington in the middle of the afternoon. This will include grocery stores and actual crack houses. Don’t worry about your daughter’s safety as I will be armed with a .357 magnum loaded with 145-grain silver tipped hollow point bullets. When I approach a crack head I will first ask whether he paid income taxes last year. If he says “no” I will hand him $20.
If your daughter asks me why I give money to people who don’t pay taxes I’ll remind her that this is what President Obama does. Then I’ll ask her if she still believes in “spreading the wealth” without regard to individual merit.
By the end of the afternoon, I can guarantee your daughter will be cured of her STD. Sorry if I sound overly optimistic, Steve. I got my optimism from the same place I got my love of capitalism. I learned it from Ronald Reagan, not Barack Obama.
My typo. The author is Mike Adams, not Doug Giles.
Very good!
One flaw - guns will be banned soon.
BTW, I am a fan of John Wicliffe.
Children should be properly insulated to socialism before even junior high school.
It is comprehensive training. They need to know when to confront and when to deceive, when socialists have some authority over them. And since socialists know no moderation and will push too hard, children need to know how to push back.
In many ways it is like learning martial arts. Lots of times it is just better to walk away. But sometimes you have to use karate, sometimes hapkido or judo, and on the rare occasion, you had better be armed with a weapon.
Often the direct approach won’t work, because they are expecting it, and are ready to counter it. But they are generally cowardly dogs, so if you nail them a good one from an unexpected direction, they will fold.
All told, children need to know any number of ins and outs to such people, but properly taught, they can and will fend off the worst of the scoundrels. Certainly they are likely to get a lot of practice.
They are kids. They are going to do whatever their peers are doing. Obama and his kind know this and of course will take advantage of it.
Parent out there with kids heading to college...please warn them about acute alcohol poisoning. Inexperienced drinkers may inbibe in hard liquor as if it is beer, and quickly get a lethal dose of alcohol in their bloodstream. Warn them. Kids do not know how dangerous too much hard liquor is.
I get that Adams is using the pitiful brother character to tie into the "reward failure" idea, but I think it undermines the send-your-kid-to-college-and-a-socialist-comes-home idea. In comparison to her brother, the girl is still in pretty good shape. The daughter may have caught an "STD," but at least she's still in school, not on drugs, and not physically assaulting her father.
Adams would have been better off eliminating the brother character and using some other device for the "reward failure" point.
>One flaw - guns will be banned soon.
Just like “logic” and “reading”, especially when it comes to the strange and mysterious “Law”.
Yeah, as we slowly work our way to being another Zimbabwe that will slowly be dropped from the curriculum.
Right now we are imitating Venezuela where companies are being nationalized.
Ha! Ha! I got STD the end of my Sophmore year after doing a Habitat for Humanity type project for Spring Break.
The following year I moved into an off-campus house with two other guys. One guy constantly mooched my food from the fridge and neither of the other two cleaned the place up. I wound up cleaning the bathroom most of the time.
This early experience with Socialism cured my STD for the rest of my life!
I think I may have sounded somewhat pompus and I apologize for that :)
another cure would be to pay her necessary expenses...books, a lunch ticket to the school cafeteria and any necessary fees not covered by the scholarsip. Any spending money comes from her actually getting a JOB. Make sure she takes note of the taxes being witheld. Then send her regular updates on how HER tax money is being given and wasted by the government.
I was never a true liberal in college, but my heartstrings would be tugged now and then. It was when I started spending my own money that I worked for that I became a real conservative.
Summit ministries has wonderful worldview conferences perhaps a financial incentive to attend would help change her outlook.
I can usually read coming plot twist pretty easily, but Doug Giles got me this time. I though for sure he was going to offer them cabinet appointments.
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